'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
– Edward Everett Hale
Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!
– Edward Everett Hale
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
– Edward Everett Hale
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
– Edward Everett Hale
Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.
– Edward Everett Hale
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
– Edward Everett Hale
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
– Edward Everett Hale
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
– Edward Everett Hale
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
– Edward Everett Hale
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.